*6 pm: '''Principles of Low Power Design''', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.

*6 pm: '''Principles of Low Power Design''', [http://dolemite.wuli.nu/ Alex Newman]. Hardware you have never heard of for more low power.

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*7 pm: '''Improving the Scientific Process through Software''', [http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellows/fellow_profile.aspx?d=1205 Jacob Steinhardt]. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't.

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*7 pm: [http://cs.stanford.edu/~jsteinhardt/software_for_science.pdf '''Improving the Scientific Process through Software'''], [http://www.hertzfoundation.org/dx/fellows/fellow_profile.aspx?d=1205 Jacob Steinhardt]. Learn about existing open source projects to improve science, and others that should exist but don't.

*8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk

*8 pm: Part two of Danny's talk

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** Example of a scrape script that tells you how many users are reading a particular subreddit: http://zesty.ca/python/reddit_users.py

** Example of a scrape script that tells you how many users are reading a particular subreddit: http://zesty.ca/python/reddit_users.py

** Run this script periodically for a week to get a .tsv file, load it into Google Spreadsheets, make a chart out of it, and you get this: [[Media:Reddit-users.png]]. Now you know exactly when to post your cat photos to maximize the eyeballs on it!

** Run this script periodically for a week to get a .tsv file, load it into Google Spreadsheets, make a chart out of it, and you get this: [[Media:Reddit-users.png]]. Now you know exactly when to post your cat photos to maximize the eyeballs on it!

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*6 - end: Project demos! Show us what you've worked on this weekend.

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*6 - end: '''Project demos!''' Show us what you've worked on this weekend.

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'''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events'''

'''Unscheduled / Unconfirmed Events'''

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== RECAP ==

== RECAP ==

http://recapthelaw.org/

http://recapthelaw.org/

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Ping demonstrates PACER, the US federal court's paywall for public-domain legal documents, and how it charges $0.10 per "page" for everything (including search results!). The RECAP browser extension uploads PACER results to the Internet Archive so that others will not have to pay the fees. If you are about to pay for a document which someone else has already uploaded, it allows you to retrieve it from archive.org instead. There are 854,711 items in the archive.org RECAP collection so far.

Ping demonstrates PACER, the US federal court's paywall for public-domain legal documents, and how it charges $0.10 per "page" for everything (including search results!). The RECAP browser extension uploads PACER results to the Internet Archive so that others will not have to pay the fees. If you are about to pay for a document which someone else has already uploaded, it allows you to retrieve it from archive.org instead. There are 854,711 items in the archive.org RECAP collection so far.

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The RECAP browser extension for Firefox is at: http://github.com/citp/recap

The RECAP browser extension for Firefox is at: http://github.com/citp/recap

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The hackathon project was to develop RECAP for Chrome: http://github.com/zestyping/recap-chrome

The hackathon project was to develop RECAP for Chrome: http://github.com/zestyping/recap-chrome

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Currently, RECAP for Chrome checks the Internet Archive to see which documents are available, and adds links to the page so you can get the documents for free instead of paying to download them from PACER. It doesn't upload documents to the Internet Archive yet, though -- that part still needs to be done.

Currently, RECAP for Chrome checks the Internet Archive to see which documents are available, and adds links to the page so you can get the documents for free instead of paying to download them from PACER. It doesn't upload documents to the Internet Archive yet, though -- that part still needs to be done.

* sid talks about his study on the ideation of suicide and its relation to Aaron's blog posts. we chat about some of the ethical issues involved

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* Resources for hackers to get help: www.saizai.com/depression

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* Sid talks about his study on the ideation of suicide as a cognitive linguistic model and its relation to Aaron's blog posts. He performed a limited analysis of the "Raw Nerve" posts over the weekend and explored it's use as corpus for identifying the linguistic ideation of suicide in other texts. We chat about some of the ethical issues involved in using computational linguistic analysis of blog posts to detect the ideation of suicide in an author.

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* Resources for hackers to get help: http://www.saizai.com/depression

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* Articles on the cognitive linguistic ideation of suicide:<br> Word Use in the Poetry of Suicidal and Nonsuicidal Poets: http://www.psychosomaticmedicine.org/content/63/4/517.full <br>Gaining Perspective through Expressive Writing http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/192529

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== Knowledge for Good (Aviv) ==

== Knowledge for Good (Aviv) ==

http://knowledgeforgood.referata.com/wiki/Knowledge_for_Good

http://knowledgeforgood.referata.com/wiki/Knowledge_for_Good

Working together to improve the way people create, organize, and distribute important knowledge.

Working together to improve the way people create, organize, and distribute important knowledge.

Latest revision as of 04:46, 12 February 2013

In memory of Aaron Swartz, and in coordination with a world-wide effort, Noisebridge will be hosting a hackathon starting Friday, January 25th, and continuing through Sunday, January 27th.

Aaron was a hacktivist and friend of many in our community. He helped create RSS 1.0; contributed to Creative Commons; was an early builder of Reddit, where he's often acknowledged as a co-founder; created the web.py framework; and more recently, became a data liberator, first with PACER and then with scholarly articles from JSTOR, both of which got him into trouble with the law.

Aaron Swartz committed suicide on Jan. 11, 2013, but his work on making the world a better place should not die with him. Join us for two days of understanding his work and contributing to keep his memory and projects alive.

What: Come learn new skills and work together on projects that Aaron would have liked. Themes include open information access, sharing and preserving human knowledge, hacking for social/political justice, and techno-activism.

Run this script periodically for a week to get a .tsv file, load it into Google Spreadsheets, make a chart out of it, and you get this: Media:Reddit-users.png. Now you know exactly when to post your cat photos to maximize the eyeballs on it!

Field trip to look for hidden cameras in public places around the Mission

Ilsa Bartlett is a "crisis counselor for highly intelligent people (geeks) who need someone to talk to and creates a container of quiet for people to fill with their issues." She will be around to provide counseling during the hackathon.

David Newman, ipad portrait artist, showed up and started painting portraits of people hacking on Saturday.

vaccuum-powered page-turning arm for book scanner, built out of random parts that were laying around. NOT the Dany Q one, that one costs $1500 (and is awesome) but this one is under $100. It isn't actually scanning books yet so far, just turning pages. Interested in feedback on mechanism & software.

Ping demonstrates PACER, the US federal court's paywall for public-domain legal documents, and how it charges $0.10 per "page" for everything (including search results!). The RECAP browser extension uploads PACER results to the Internet Archive so that others will not have to pay the fees. If you are about to pay for a document which someone else has already uploaded, it allows you to retrieve it from archive.org instead. There are 854,711 items in the archive.org RECAP collection so far.

Currently, RECAP for Chrome checks the Internet Archive to see which documents are available, and adds links to the page so you can get the documents for free instead of paying to download them from PACER. It doesn't upload documents to the Internet Archive yet, though -- that part still needs to be done.

Sid talks about his study on the ideation of suicide as a cognitive linguistic model and its relation to Aaron's blog posts. He performed a limited analysis of the "Raw Nerve" posts over the weekend and explored it's use as corpus for identifying the linguistic ideation of suicide in other texts. We chat about some of the ethical issues involved in using computational linguistic analysis of blog posts to detect the ideation of suicide in an author.